Employment: Fair Practice

One reason that the unemployment rate
among Negroes is twice as high as among whitesfour times as high for
teen-agersis that Negroes, conditioned to a life of rebuffs, do not
realize how many jobs have opened up to them. The latest way of getting
the message across, and bringing labor-short employers together with
job seekers, is for cities to stage "job fairs." Businessmen have
sponsored various kinds of job fairs in Chicago, Seattle, New York and,
perhaps the best-organized and most successful of all, San Francisco.

On a weekend last February, 75 companies and Government agencies set up
recruiting booths...